Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Bundles

BIG BUNDLE OF SHORTS…STORIES!A Bundle, A Buffet, A Bunch of Short Stories

Includes “Cups and Coins”

The Cats Cats Cats Bundle8 Cat Tales for the Feline Lovers In All of Us!

Includes “A Heath Witch at Chisolm Keep”

Guns of the West: “Full Moon Over a Desolate Plain”

9 Amazing Tales Of The Wild West Bundled For You!

Includes “Full Moon Over a Desolate Plain”

Thrilling Wonder Adventure Stories

In the tradition of the pulp magazines the Thrilling Wonder Adventure bundle offers you a wide range of short science fiction by some of today’s best writers. You will discover alternate realities, strange aliens, meet super humans transformed by aliens, a time traveling oak tree, meet the end of the world head on, attend a baseball game in the far future for the highest stakes ever, meet a space traveller returning to a future and unexpected Earth and much, much more. So strap on your jetpack and let these writers rocket you into the future and the past of speculative fiction. Includes “Socks and Pins and Aliens”.

UFOAs inhabitants of this small planet, we have looked up at the stars and wondered if intelligent life from other planets are visiting us. These talented authors answer this question in a wide range of short stories ranging from the truth about Roswell, and the dreaded pirate Blackbeard fighting an alien invasion, to a tale involving the legends of Frankenstein’s castle. These stories go beyond the myths and legends about UFOs, and the aliens who inhabit them, and take you on an incredible adventure to reveal the unknown. Includes “Operant Conditioning”.

Weird Wild West

Comprised of FOUR complete novels, two novellas, and eight individual short stories I guarantee that you will enjoy this bundle of some of the weirdest and wildest western tales that you could shake a rattlesnake at. Includes “Over the Wire”.

The Witches’ Brew: “A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep”

Magic sparks and cauldrons bubble;

Potions bring love, and curses bring trouble.

Witches. Warlocks. Wizards. Familiars…

Enter twenty different worlds of magic and enchantment.

Includes “A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep”

Anthologies

The Best of Jim Baen’s Universe: “Fishing”

Astounding Tales! (Also Amazing and Astonishing!)

Tell the truth: you flat-out love science fiction and fantasy. Time travel. Space opera. Alternate history. Doesn’t matter. What you love is the story. The great idea. The adventure and action. That good old-fashioned science fiction staple, the Sense of Wonder.

Cat Tales Issue #1: “A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep” So, seeing that your cat is doing all of that watching, maybe you had better grab yourself a look at these nine magical cat tales. Read them to yourself or better yet read them aloud to your cat and see if you can’t irritate one of those low and rumbling growls of indignation that only cats can seem to make happen.

Crossing Colfax: Short Stories by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers: “A Full Moon Over a Desolate Plain”

Playboy Magazine once called Colfax Avenue “the longest, wickedest street in America.” A hundred years ago, it was the main road into and out of Denver, Colorado. East Colfax was the address to have for many of the city’s elite, and West Colfax was a trail that led to the mountains and dreams of Gold Rush riches. A 105-acre tuberculosis sanatorium for the poor once fronted the street – the Golden Hill Cemetery still houses many of the White Plague’s victims.

We invite you to explore Colfax Avenue – its past, present, and future. Its greatest moments, real or imaginary, and its darkest secrets. Tales of romance, action, fantasy and more – Colfax has seen it all.

ERGOSPHERE (M-BRANE SF #12): “Becoming Connie”

The old becomes new again as fifteen talented authors go back to the lurid pulp titles of yesteryear through today’s rich, nuanced storytelling. Enjoy original tales featuring rebel angels fighting a heavenly enforcement squad, a cop whose life might depend on ordering the right deli sandwich, and a wizard who has just three days to pay off the loan on his tower or lose his very soul. Whatever your taste in stories, Recycled Pulp is sure to have something that will amaze, surprise, and delight you.

Fiction River: No Humans Allowed (Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine) (Volume 22): “Sheath Hopes”Humans prove great fodder for fiction. But what about the universe of possibilities offered by the nonhuman protagonist? The eighteen daring humans of Fiction River’s latest volume explore just that. From a goblin who must choose whether to risk everything for love to a heroic rat adventuring at sea to sentient underpants (yes, underpants), these nonhuman tales demonstrate why Adventures Fantastic says: “If you haven’t checked out Fiction River yet, you should. There’s something for everyone.”

Nothing compares to a good ghost story. And in Haunted, some of the best short fiction writers in the business explore the many different ways to haunt someone: literally, figuratively, happily, angrily… From a man haunted by his wife’s favorite appliance to a possessed building protective of its new family to a chilling twist on the modern practice of ghosting, the thirteen authors of Fiction River’s latest volume provide unforgettable stories that will haunt the reader for years to come.

The relentless ticking of a clock as time slips away marks the breathless pace of these remarkable stories. In Fiction River’s third edition of its Pulse Pounders series, these sixteen authors push the envelope of the thriller form. From a man desperately searching for his missing little girl to a chef racing to finish a cooking competition to an airship captain facing a deadly adversary, these stories will keep your pulse racing until the very end.

Take a journey into darker realms with the latest volume of Fiction River Presents. Starting with a one mage’s difficult choice, this volume transports readers to dark magical worlds—sometimes eerily similar to our own and sometimes incredibly foreign. Including the prequels to two groundbreaking series, the Runelords and the Fey, this volume proves why Adventures Fantastic says the Fiction River series “is one of the best and most exciting publications in the field today.”

Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions: “Not a Meat Puppet, a Magic Puppet”

Edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, this volume is the eleventh Hot Blood erotic horror collection — and according to Cemetery Dance, “one of the best volumes in this long- running series – a top rating.” Fatal Attractions is the most lauded roster of contributors in the rich three-decade history of the Hot Blood series. Fatal Attractions is One to Die For, the pinnacle of erotic horror and a must read for fans.

Stars in the Darkness: “Judging Pashet”

This is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced. The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to alternate realities. Every tale, whether set in ancient Egypt, in a future where only the rich can afford to increase their children’s intelligence through genetic engineering, or about a man turned into a zombie by accident, sends a message about what matters. These stories show bravery, compassion, courage—and consequences.

Short Stories

“A Hearth Witch at Chisolm Keep”

Misha Millik, a hearth witch brought to Chisolm Keep by the headmaster, feels out of her depth at this magic school for the children of established magicians. Branded a misfit by the wealthy students, she finds a friend in a stray cat who can talk to her. Desperately unhappy and completely inept at any kind of magic the school teaches, she wonders why the headmaster insists she stay at the school. When she finds the horrifying answer, she must use her humble powers to save herself and find her true place as a practicing witch.

“Bonita and the Hacienda”

A modern version of Beauty and the Beast with a Hispanic twist.

“Buffalo on a Vinegar Morning”

Davis Bessinton’s life changed the day lightning struck him. His company, already teetering on the edge, fails when he loses the expertise he used to have, and his wife leaves him, unable to cope with his new compulsion to create art. When Davis finds an intruder rifling through his art, the man cuts a hole in thin air and steps through it. Who he is and where he goes will change Davis’ life.

“Message by Chotchkies”

When Maddie Robertson takes a job importing a statue of a Babylonian goddess from England to a gallery in Denver, it seems like a simple task–until a spirit in her house starts arranging the knick knacks on her bookshelf into messages of danger. When she researches further, she discovers the statue has a history of violence and despair. Maddie soon finds herself in the thick of the desperate position the spirit warned against. She’ll have to save herself or end up on the sacrificial altar.

“Over the Wire”

Brice Sebastian, a half breed, runs wire for Western Union across the great plains, open to white settlement since the Indians are moving down the Trail of Tears in this alternate history 19th Century America. An odd interaction between the solder and a new spool of copper wire creates a door into a new world empty of men, and full of giant creatures long since gone from his. Such a land has promise as safe home for the Indians, but he has to convince them to trust him long enough to cross over while keeping the soldiers from killing everyone in the process.

“Walkabout”

Riggy, a newly minted Guide, agrees to guide a strangely innocent young man, on a spring walkabout through the forests of Ushban, a small moonlet at the edge of colonized space. When a pair of oddly marked dragons begin to stalk them, Riggy must get them safely to a station while protecting her client from the creatures and his ignorance of the dangers of a wilderness.

“Waiting for on Humanity’s Table”

Chuck Perlman is the world’s first recreated Neanderthal. Nearly adult, he is the prize in a corporate struggle to own what Chuck represents. He must find a place in the world of Homo Sapiens, a world he doesn’t fit into, often doesn’t understand, and discover what he can offer that will give him a place and a future in it.